I’ve read far more self-help books than is good for me. I’ve read about far too many productivity systems too. In my work as a SysAdmin I get a lot of emails, chat notifications, and general interruptions. I bullet journal. I’ve tried the Pomodoro technique. But one of the most useful things I’ve come across, applied to both my personal and work lives is a little thing I picked up for the Google SRE books. The concept that information coming from systems should be classified as one of three types.
Three Alert Levels
VCP Foundation Objective 1.1 Identify vSphere Architecture and Solutions
This is the start of the series digging into the blueprint for the VCP Foundation Exam. This post will deal with “Objective 1.1 Identify vSphere Architecture and Solutions for a given use case”. Let’s get started.
VCP Foundation Exam
With the release of vSphere 6, VMware have updated the exam structure as normal. This time there are a couple of interesting (to me at least) changes.
NSX Packet Walks - North/South Traffic
This is my final port in the NSX Packet walk series. So far I have discussed only so called “East/West” traffic. That is traffic which is moving from one VM, or physical machine, in our network to another. This traffic will never leave the datacenter, and in a lot of cases, will never leave the same rack in a small system, or NSX system.
NSX Packet Walks - VLAN Bridge
This is the fourth post in the NSX Packet Walks series. You probably want to start at the first post.